The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Then, in May 2017, a friend told her about a new Delta-based nonprofit, Regional Initiatives for Sustainable Education (RISE), which offered tutoring for the Praxis. William Carey University in Hattiesburg joined RISE’s efforts to help teachers become certified in October 2017. Her eyes welled with tears as she recalled the struggle.

Tutoring 81

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

A grassroots coalition of business and civic leaders came together with a resolve to fix these problems by alternately helping and compelling educators to greatly improve their results. The economic development people had written the check. Mobile did more than just bemoan its grim statistics. Now we needed to cash it.”.

Education 65

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

Instead of attending neighborhood schools with students of the same race and economic status, as most children do in Mississippi, Osborn went to school with an even mix of black and white classmates, some from the town’s wealthy subdivisions and others from Clinton’s poorer areas. They’re also extremely successful.

Junior High 74

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The effect is the same — forging partnerships with the city and local organizations to invest in the economic development of the community,” she said in a statement. Civic project’ or ‘land grab’? A lawsuit briefly halted the Bollinger plan because judges agreed it was not a “civic project.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2018

Students shivering in winter coats while trying to learn is horrific in itself, but the malfunctioning boilers are a metaphor for the wider problems with the criminal justice systems, schools, housing and economic development plans in the “Charm City.”. The 2017-18 fiscal budget is 1.31 She’s right. billion dollars.

Civic Engagement 74

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2017

They’ve endured a number of Republican-led efforts to reduce arts funding since the 1990s, and in keeping with this tradition, President Trump’s budget blueprint, released in March 2017, proposes significant cuts to virtually every agency except Defense, Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

Oral History 60

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

He had stellar grades in high school and is civic- minded, taking after his mother, who works as a community organizer in Thibodaux. These numbers are striking in a state where, overall, 45 percent of public school students are white, 43 percent are black and 70 percent are economically disadvantaged.

K-12 75

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

She says retaining teachers is as much a problem as attracting them if not more so because the decline of manufacturing jobs in her area has created a downward economic spiral, and teachers want to live where their spouses can find jobs. Constitution, and quizzes to teach civics. This year there may be as few as 19.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2016

Without these students, the nation can’t meet its goal of increasing the proportion of the population with degrees , a measure by which several economic rivals now have an advantage. But such reforms are given long odds even by the people who support them. Help people with very little money make more of it?”.

Government 76

Government Civics Economics Advocacy 76

Political Science Now

JULY 16, 2024

Engaging Citizenship introduces foundational concepts in political science through the lens of citizenship, democracy, and civic engagement, highlighting the relevance of the discipline to students’ lives and encouraging them to become engaged and empowered citizens. McHugh, Merrimack College (Discussant) Richard M.

Political Science 53

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 20, 2024

Mississippi was the site of the most notorious lynching in the early civil rights movement, the killing of Emmett Till in 1955, and had the highest rates of lynching in the country — violence meant to impose social, economic, and political intimidation. Jackson, MS. Visited on-site June 2024. SNCC Legacy Project. Malik Ali teaching.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

DETROIT — Taking a trip down memory lane from the sidewalk in front of Western International High School, former civics teacher Keith Johnson shared the school’s ghost story, a tall tale about a child who died in a 1935 fire there. That money is not included in the Senate’s compromise infrastructure bill , now sitting before the House.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2017

Freedom, as celebrated by many school choice proponents and their neoclassical economic influencers, is mostly aligned with Friedrich Hayek’s definition in The Constitution of Liberty as freedom in a negative sense—the absence of coercion. Sign up for our weekly newsletter. appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

Economics 66

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